
Contemporary Crafts Reinstallation
Spring 1992

Contemporary Crafts Reinstallation
Spring 1992
This installation draws primarily from the Museum's permanent collection of contemporary American crafts objects and includes works by
potters, ceramicists, textiles artists, as well as basket and furniture makers. The earliest examples of ceramics in this exhibit, created by
Austrian emigres Otto and Gertrud Natzler in 1940, introduce the viewer to "American" ceramics. Other ceramic artists represented include
Robert Arneson, Richard DeVore, Rudolf Staffel, Peter Voulkos, and Beatrice Wood. Two textile artists represented are Yvonne Bobrowicz
and Cynthia Schira. Dale Chihuly's large glass sculpture shows one strain of the contemporary studio glass movement. The installation also
includes several pieces of jewelry on loan from local collections to complement the museum's own fine example of jewelry by Philadelphia
artists Olaf Skoogfors and Stanley Lechtzin.
Curator
Darrel Sewell